An astonishing photo exhibit exposing numerous water issues around the world, it was first presented in 2009 in Malaga, Spain. Since then, it has been making its way around Europe and is now in the U.S. and Mexico.
Mimundo.org’s images form part of the section focusing on the Chixoy Dam case in Rio Negro, Guatemala.
In Berkeley, California, the exhibit will be at the David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way) from June 10 to August 31.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.browercenter.org/exhibitions/current
In Veracruz, Mexico, the exhibit will be up at UV’s Veracruz-Boca del Río campus from July 23 to September 17.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.aguariosypueblos.org/en/
Peace Boat has invited James Rodríguez to participate as a guest educator in the Latin America portion of the 69th global voyage for peace onboard the TSS Oceanic (aka Peace Boat). James will be giving photography workshops and talks onboard for three weeks on the importance of independent media, negative effects of extractive industries, U.S.-Latin American relations, history of Guatemala, and history of Mexico, among others.
The Latin American section will begin in Dublin, Ireland on June 14th, call in Venezuela, Jamaica and Panama before arriving in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala on July 5th.
To read the updates from the ship, please visit:
http://www.peaceboat.org/english/voyg/69/index.html
Toronto, June 16, 2010. An Ontario judge has ruled that former Canadian Ambassador to Guatemala, Kenneth Cook, slandered Ph.D. student and videographer Steven Schnoor by making false statements about a documentary video that Schnoor made that was critical of the practices of a Canadian mining company.
In January 2007, Schnoor made a short documentary depicting the violent eviction of Mayan subsistence farmers from their homes in rural Guatemala at the behest of a Canadian mining company. This documentary includes footage of a woman who protests loudly about the evictions. It also includes a number of still photographs by James Rodríguez (from MiMundo.org), including one of a community member in despair with his head in his hand.
Justice Pamela Thomson has ruled that in a meeting conducted at the Canadian Embassy in Guatemala City in February 2007, Ambassador Cook said that the woman in the documentary was paid to act in the video and that the photograph of the man in despair was not taken at the evictions, but was a stock photograph that had been used before.
Justice Thomson held that the Ambassador’s statements were defamatory and were not true. She further held that “the Ambassador was reckless”, and that “he should have known better”.
To read more, please visit the website:
http://www.schnoorversuscanada.ca/
A great and informative photo exhibit dealing with water issues around the world, it was first presented in 2009 in Malaga, Spain. Since then, it has been making its way around Europe, and will also soon be coming to the U.S., Guatemala, and other cities in Mexico.
Mimundo.org’s images form part of the section focusing on the Chixoy Dam case in Rio Negro, Guatemala.
In Barcelona, the exhibit will be at the Museu Marítim in Barcelona from May 4 to 30.
In Mexico City, the exhibit will be up at the Circuito La Milla, Primera Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec from April 13 to June 5.
For more info, please visit:
http://www.aguariosypueblos.org
PHOTO EXHIBIT: April 7th-18th, 2010
FEM International/ETHIK BGC
6050 Saint-Hubert
Montreal
VERNISSAGE
April 7th, 5:30pm-9:30pm
5:30pm – Exhibit opening.
6:00pm – Panel discussion with:
Enrique Rivera: former legal councilor and organizer for the Frente Amplio Opositor, a group opposing an open-pit mine owned by Canadian-registered Metallica Resources in Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. He is currently seeking political asylum in Montreal after being gravely beaten in 2006, allegedly by mine employees.
Annie Pelletier: Guatemala office coordinator for Project Accompagnement Québec-Guatemala from 2007 to 2009. Annie accompanied human rights activists struggling against impunity and in the defense of natural resources.
Ernie Schibli: With more than thirty years of experience accompanying and working with activists in Guatemala, he co-founded the SJC in 1975.
Photos by James Rodriguez (www.mimundo.org) and Paul Lemieux.
With the collaboration of Project Accompagement Quebec-Guatemala and Fem International.
For more information about the Social Justice Committee of Montreal:
http://www.s-j-c.net/
Panel on Mining in Central America
Sponsored by NISGUA, Sunrise Restaurant, CISPES, CARECEN.
Featuring guest speaker, Pascual Valasquez, from Huehuetenango, Guatemala who will speak about a new form of indigenous resistance to transnational mining companies that displace communities, contaminate water and cause widespread illness. Since 2005, over 600,000 Maya have voted against open-pit mining in Guatemala through community-based referendum processes.
Sunrise Restaurant
3126 24th St @Shotwell
The Mission, San Francisco
Includes a photo exhibit by MiMundo.org the entire month of February.
For more information about NISGUA:
http://www.nisgua.org/
